Sunday, August 02, 2015, 5:36 p.m.

Robert Bork, Verb

By Paul Greenberg

Bork, v., trans., “To defame or vilify (a person ) systematically, esp. in the mass media, usually with the aim of preventing his or her appointment to public office; to obstruct or thwart (a person) in this way.” —Oxford English Dictionary in an entry dated March, 1992.